People: Cameron McNall

Visiting Assistant Professor of Design
M. ARCH Harvard University
BA UCLA
Fellow, American Academy in Rome


Cameron McNallCameron McNall is an artist and architect who explores ideas through a variety of media. In addition to UCLA he has taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Texas A&M, and SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture.) A partial list of fellowships and honors he has received include the Rome Prize in Architecture, the Young Architects award of the Architectural League, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture, the New York A.I.A. Brunner Grant (twice), the NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, the Augustus St. Gaudens Fellowship in Sculpture, the P.S.1 Studio Fellowship, the Massachusetts Art Council Grant.


Two interests have guided Cameron's work for many years: the relationship between images and form (2-D to 3-D), and anArt on the Beach obsession with light and shadow. Often these interests are combined in projects such as this on at Art on the Beach in New York in 1987. The translucent panels of the structure register the shadows of shapes attached to its front. The public ascends stairs to walk between the shapes and their shadows and in turn also becomes part of the ephemeral shadow play.

 

Terra MetallumTerra Metallum is a huge construction built at Artpark in 1991. The shape of the irregular perforated metal face mimics the triangulated facets of a polygonal computer representation.

Byron Avenue Addition

 

 

 

This exploration of structure to irregular form was continued in the Byron Avenue Addition.

 

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